skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've got a point there, if I'm reading you correctly:

If Robinhood (et al—sorry RH you're the de facto stand-in now) can't meet the standard of keeping up with the ... other cars in the race... then they shouldn't be allowed to enter. In that case, the analogy helps since most races have minimum qualifier rounds before you're allowed to enter.

I've got no arguments there. But that's the kind of thing RH [et al] were founded to confront or change, wasn't it? Or were they just circumventing previous regulation about market interfaces? This is where we get into the weeds and me out of my depth.
The same thing in reverse isn't market manipulation. Buying call options or the stock itself is legal.

What can be market manipulation is to collude with others to move a stock price not because you believe it is worth a different amount, but because you predict others will react to the movement you create. That applies to collusion involving shorts (bear raids) too. Proving the collusion and the artificial price bit is the difficult bit
I still remember the tweet [1] PG strongly disagree with that and arguing with Matthew Prince.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129897694984646657?s=20
Is it true still, tho? I got the impression there is a lot of myth around Macbooks, which kindof wasn't updated since 2015.

A lot of folks around me simply skipped the new Macbooks, since touchbar, keyboard, ... , were just unusable for them.

Then you had the major issues with dust getting into the keyboard messing it up, the screens dying after weeks of usage, USB things...

Now the Big Sur update bricks your machine, if you reset it, because there is a firmware bug. The M1 Macbooks are distroyed by USB-C PD hubs (not just the "cheap ones"; as if that would have been excusable..). Plenty users reporting the machines to panic once or twice a day.

People seem to be happy with the old non-retina Air's, the pre 2016 Macbooks, but I don't see this at all for the recent stuff. Apart from the M1 performance hype, which of course is legit, but doesn't cancel out the "just works" issues.

Seems rather like a long, long experimental transition, then reliable experience.
Robinhood is owned by Citadel, one of the companies that stand to benefit quite a bit from GME dropping.
I just learned about the Citadel/Robinhood connection from this https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/, which the author https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/13546053632874864... explained as "Why it's not Robinhood/Reddit vs. Hedge Funds. It's Hedge Funds vs. Hedge Funds vs. Wall Street, with Robinhood as a fig leaf". The sidebars in the article explain a lot of the lingo.
Where did I "claim" anything. You demanded evidence from a blog post commenting on a wide discussion, that they have been involved in for years.

There are plenty of arguments by plenty of people making this point. You can agree or disagree with that, but you can't demand that they convince you.

If I say that a free press is important to democracy, you cannot demand that I "prove it."

OTOH, If a (my) legislating body has officially resolved something, as they have, I do get to demand that they tell me what it is. Telling me that they expect big tech to implement a system where police can gain lawful access to my data without circumventing encryption is... pissing on me while telling me it's raining.

And yes, Orwellian, in the simplest and most iconic way. This is a resolution to ban encryption. Plain and simple. The resolution's language is all about how they respect privacy and encryption. This is Ministry of Love language, and it's Orwell all the way down. The only way to progress as they clearly wish is by changing the definition of the term "encrypted." More precisely, taking away the "end-2-end" caveat or some other way of encrypting while circumventing encryption.

Incidentally, instead of "police," the resolution refers to them (5 times) as "competent authorities." This is like an Orwell homage... maybe an intentional wink. If I ever write a 1984 knock-off, the police will be called CAs.
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In fairness, the hard part is scaling redundant HA phone operators. I'm sure between twilio, deep learning, and GPT3 they have the problem almost solved.

Riiing. Hi, I'd like to order tamale maker TK156.

No problem! Where in Tokelau would you like us to send 156 tamales?
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This is the new blades on razors. Pretty soon we'll have 5 tab bars and a lubrication strip.
Bankruptcy is not independent from the stock price. If your company goes bankrupt, its shares are voided.
Not genius. What you're describing is the difference between a problem and a mystery.

If you have some basic skills in a domain, when a problem arises, you usually have some idea about how to solve at least part of the problem. But if you have no skills, every part of even the most basic problem is a mystery that you have no idea how to begin to solve. Then when you see someone solve your mystery, especially if they can do it adroitly, to you they appear to be a genius. Mystery solved.

On that basis, a genius is someone who can solve a problem that other experts had no idea how to solve. A supergenius is someone who solves a problem that other experts didn't realize even existed. (AKA, they hit a target others could not see).
For me it just means that 'under 40' is a meaningless way to bin the statistic and creates a completely unnecessary and counterproductive us-v-them. There is a huge swath of people over 40 that are financially fucked, some portion of which due to circumstances completely outside of their control, and they all have much less time to recover before they age out of the workforce.
What needs to be elaborated? Question feels voyeuristic.
If you dig a ditch specifically to be filled with rain water, then in what sense is taking rainwater from that ditch not harvesting rainwater?

Is it no longer rainwater if it touches a ditch? Maybe it's no longer rainwater if it touches a barrel. "Haha no States have laws against harvesting rainwater, only barrel water, you fools!"
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Why allow sales in that case?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25928641
So is it dot-method notation (`foo.Bar()`)? If so, does that make Go and Rust OOP as well? That's just syntax though; what about the C convention of `ClassName_method_name(ClassName obj)`? That's still namespace by the type even if the language* doesn't have a first-class notion of a type prefix.
This applies to Crypto as well. Negligible fundamentals. Negligible oversight.
> Weren't various famous people getting various BLM people out of jail? Isn’t that, not so good? Lot of looting going on.

Here you seem to be obfuscating (the most recent) 100+ years of systemic mistreatment of black+ Americans. The method is to conflate millions of people who are protesting that mistreatment, with people who leveraged the protests to loot.

That's not an original method but it could help the larger goal of conserving those harmful systems. It also indicates that you are extremely intent on discrediting people who are trying to end their persistent, life-changing mistreatment.

> Condemning the violence around the capitol while not doing the same for the violence around the anitfa actions and blm protests where there was also real violence... doesn't seem wise.

This is more conflation. In this case you work with an assumption that protests against generations of life-changing abuse are ethically equal to protests against changing those abusive systems.

As far as rioting to overturn unliked election results or the domestic terror plot to kidnap the governor, the daily new charges against members of those RW groups, speaks more clearly than any debate you and I could have.

Just as a side note: I've been an R-voting conservative, my entire adult life. My first ever non-R PotUS vote was 2016. Because the world changes and my principles did not, I find myself wholly unaligned with what RW America has become.
Pity it doesn't work for importing chat history from Wire...

...But then again, Wire is so useless, it can't even import its own chat history, most of the time.
other brokers still allow buying of gamestop stock. This is purely robinhoods decision to block trading using their app. There is no official market wide block.
> We clarified our definition of commercial usage in our Terms of Service in an update on Sept. 30, 2020. The new language states that use by individual hobbyists, students, universities, non-profit organizations, or businesses with less than 200 employees is allowed, and all other usage is considered commercial and thus requires a business relationship with Anaconda.

Looks like small companies are exonerated from commercial license.
You could also imagine that they have concern about the volume causing issues on their servers. A literal thundering herd might mean owners of GME can't sell during the collapse which would put robinhood in a bad situation
Thanks to everyone who has given advice and helped us develop a timeline of the incident. I'm not part of the network and asset management: I'm a mere editor of the website.

The current registrar has contacted me. They've locked the domain and we need to submit some paperwork. It shouldn't be that big of a deal even though it's annoying. All of this was handled quickly (12 hours) because of the attention to the internet in general.
And Bill's mom provided the connection to IBM. That's a huge advantage.
Very cool of robinhood to protect me by tanking my stock position simply because it’s as odds with their wallet. What a fucking sham of a company and if there isn’t some serious legal repercussions of it, then I don’t know what even would qualify as “market manipulation”.
Citadel invested in robinhood, and Melvin Capital
I like to think our vision is bigger than that. Amazon offers a lot of building blocks. We're assembling those blocks into a solution so that AWS customers don't have to assemble the blocks themselves. As Amazon changes and enhances those blocks, we'll evolve what it looks like to build on top of them appropriately.

And before long, we envision offering analogous functionality for the other public clouds. We've found that the most valuable customers are using multiple clouds and want a single solution across them. So even if Amazon eventually solves this problem for AWS, the multi-cloud market should offer us plenty of opportunity.
> It's time to move on and use those services for keeping in touch with old classmates or whatever they are good at and develop platforms that are good for holding serious conversations.

The challenge is, there's no money in that. The money is in serving ads, which depends on serving up upsetting/titillating media 24/7.

Paywalls can't work because the barrier to entry keeps you from getting a sufficient network effect. You can have a small community that way, but you can't do a global "connecting everyone" thing. Such services will simply be outcompeted by the Facebook model.

I think the headlining article's point on open protocols might be the only way to square that circle and I'm not even very optimistic about that working. I think the real disjunction happens when we merge news with a general social feed of every random person's opinion. If you stream your facts and porthole into the broader world through the same framework that you stream advertizing and deranged soapbox rants, then you're conceptually putting all those things in the same box and blurring the lines between them. News articles present themselves more like ads (e.g.". . .and you won't believe what happens next"). Conversations start to resemble ads too, with people throwing out provocative statements to get attention and likes instead of engaging in a more genuine/1to1 way.And the ads start to try looking like news or advice from a 'friend' (read: influencer) to slip past your "this is marketing BS" filter.

The context collapse is what's unsustainable. In the olden days, when forums ruled the web, people got links and memes shared in forums, but the people sharing those things were getting them from other forums or they were finding them in blogs or pages via an RSS reader or just a daily roll of bookmarked sites they would go through. This maintained some cognitive difference between when you're seeing a blog written by an irascible and opinionated shock jock versus a piece in The NYTimes. Even if the person sharing had the point of an article go over their heads or ends up 'eating the onion' on something whatever harebrained aspect of it remains sequestered in whatever subforum they're in if it doesn't get fact checked there. The collapse makes the consumer stop being aware of the distinctions, and it cuts off the small-scale testbeds these things have to go through before they go truly viral. It also drives the producers to not care. So now the NYTimes hires irascible shock jocks as editorial columnists too because nothing matters anymore.
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You're correct.

The 100% number came from a video that someone at Citron Capital posted. I can't find the actual video, but it's quoted at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/melvin-ca...

However, I'm not sure about Melvin - they may well have lost more than 100%.
I set up a Jitsi instance last year, and it didn't involve Docker at all. Getting the ports set up was the biggest issue.

I used this guide: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...
The actual language, sure. The ecosystem, tools, libraries, and techniques surrounding it, I would say takes longer.

For example, I was making games professionally using C#/.Net for several years before getting hired in enterprise app development. I was able to contribute right away, but there was a ton I wasn't familiar with and took time to understand, from SQL Server (especially SQL optimization, transactions, triggers, etc), to BLL/DAO, dependency injection, CQRS, Unit Testing, Octopus Deployment, Powershell, Active Directory, TFS Server/Build, Windows Services, XAML, Microsoft Azure, IIS, Entity Framework, .NET Core, and a bunch of other things.

Six years into enterprise/web work on the Microsoft stack and I'm still learning new things here and there.

All that being said, I will reiterate that I was able to work on bug fixes and new features within a week of being hired at both companies, despite not knowing hardly any of this stuff at the beginning, and most of that time was spent getting familiar with how everything was structured and flowed in all their various software.
Qutebrowser runs on top of Blink, which is the same guts that are in Chrome. So if Widevine is packaged for some other browser that is available on your distro, you can pass in the QT arg

"widevine-path=/path/to/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so"

and it should work. This even works on NixOS, although you have to pull the relevant path out of the Nix store, and I don't know a good way to do that automatically that can fit inside a qutebrowser config.
If GameStop trades below book value, then someone could do a takeover, sell all the assets and make a profit.
https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/RHS%20SEC%2...
"Sam Summers was sitting at home with his penis wrapped in an internet-connected chastity cage when he got a weird message on the app that connects to the device. Someone told him they had taken control and they wanted around $1,000 in Bitcoin to give control back to Summers.

"Initially, I thought it was my partner doing that," Summers told Motherboard in a phone call. "It sounds silly, but I got a bit excited by it."

This is just...just amazing.
PG should remind himself that statistical outliers exist.

A short quip on Twitter does not mean anything when you have quantitative data against you.
Not just a rules change, I’m pretty sure an illegal rules change. Volume manipulation is stock manipulation according to the SEC.
There are currently ~970 stations in the US. They should top 1k sometime around April, if not a little before.
In Capitalist America, free market bans you.
No, they’ve made billions of the backs of everyone else for years.
Hacker news often gets very skeptical about blockchain-related projects. But I think Uniswap and similar "automatic market makers" are showing us a glimpse of how things will work. It's an unstoppable exchange with no middlemen. Anybody can access, anybody can trade, anybody can pool their money to facilitate these trades and nobody can say "no, you cannot".
I don't get why this is so important to people. I personally love Signal's disappearing messages feature - seldom would I ever want to scroll back through chat for anything.

If I did have some valuable chat history in an app, wouldn't I just want to save it out as a file I can keep somewhere?
the plebs do not realize is power for me but not for thee... This whole stock market is a game to extract real money from us while they sell us useless paper... even if they fail, they will be bailed out... there is not free market, it rigged and this shows!!!
How would you encode a protocol with Tree Notation?

If you specify the fields and hierarchy with Tree Notation or YAML or JSON or EBNF or whatever, that's a starting point which can help with implementation the communication and data storage part. But you still need to write code for each language and each protocol right? Or can we encode the protocol-handling code using Tree Notation also?

I have always felt like web assembly was missing a well-defined system for extending the API and also a strong external module system. Or even if you could not extend the API much, if WASI had UDP, and there was a good WASM module distribution system, that seems like a way that one could distribute protocols.

But also Ethereum 2 seems like a decent way to distribute protocols.
Apparently Citadel is in bed with Schwab/Ameritrade, too, who also halted trading:

"The Verge meanwhile noted one hedge fund suffering amid the GameStop surge was Melvin Capital Management, which another hedge fund, Citadel, has since bailed out. Citadel's founder is Ken Griffin, who also founded Citadel Securities, a big investor in Robinhood that also works with TD Ameritrade and Charles Schwab."

I suspect they sell them the trading data just like Robinhood does, to help them front-running the retail traders.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/963627/robinhood-halts-tradin...
AWS will wait until this company launches, gets meaningful traction, and then at Re:Invent 2022, AWS will launch "AWS Region Replication Service," charge $0.02/GB copied across regions, and within a few years, Arpio will have to pivot to doing the same thing, except "multi-cloud" because that's a market AWS doesn't like to be in.
I can't remember the movie. Can't even remember the actor, but...

"What. the fuck. are you talking about?!"

Tesla's price-to-earnings ratio is 1660.

Why didn't TSLA buying get shut down? OH yeah, because a shitload of institutional investors have shares.
This is the same problem that puts demagogues in power: humans in great numbers behave like a herd. You infuse a strong emotion in enough of us, and it snowballs.

We are dumb, our emotions and instinct get the better of us, and we need to come to terms with that if we want to be less vulnerable to manipulators.
It is only repeatable if someone is willing to short a huge percentage of a company.

Maybe they should think twice anyway!

In one since shorting is literally trying to take advantage of someone that has faith in a company. Many times people will short a stock and then release a paper shitting all over the stock and painting it in the worst light possible (legally) to push the price down.

I have little sympathy for them. I don't think shorting should be illegal, but they know what they are signing up for.
Right, once the stock actually collapses and drops way below it's trend price, those holding the shorts and expecting to make a few bucks on them will end up making an absolute killing. Sticking it to the man my arse.
Hell hath no fury like a Reddit mob scorned.

I modded and later administrated a smallish v-bulletin forum for over 5 years (20 - 70 registered users posting on any given day, depending), I remember some d*cks from a big Red Sox forum harassing us occasionally but nothing coordinated, widespread, or unmanageable.

Running a forum on Reddit seems like running a store in downtown Seattle, I'm sure the discoverability of Reddit is nice, but God bless anyone willing to put up with the mobs who just wanna break shit.
OK, we've got this. Can we now stop sharing this every 5 minutes?
Amateur investors lose money in the end.
> It's possible we might end up with a sort of left/right-brain setup, with a noisy analog hypothesis generator paired with a robust, logic-based evaluator/planner.

That sounds very interesting to explore, definitely would teach us something new.
The problem is not being right or wrong, the problem is that if someone attacks you with a pitchfork, they are wrong for sure.
The high/low so far today is $514.50/$112.25. As I write this it's down 65%. What a surprise.
The plan was to choke the big hedge funds until they went bankrupt and died.
That's the new kind of deplatformings. I wonder how much the obedient public will take before they revolt.
Yes its why Robin hood is "free" but people are ignoring that maybe
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Probably not, but neither is the manipulation and huge profits the hedge funds where making doing this sort of shorting as the moment it’s noticed you’ll get another GameStop. End of that era for hedge funds I imagien
ifixit scores the Macbooks at 1/10 tho.

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Wait, so now private entities censoring/deplatforming/shutting down anyone they want for any reason they want is a bad thing? Just pretend they were all evil Trump voters that got what they deserved.
I don't know. Most of those stocks are so ridiculously overpriced and such terrible investments, there was a reason they were shorted.

While it does show contempt for their user's ability to make their own decisions, RobinHood's actions are likely a misguided attempt to protect their users from absolutely awful investments rather than protect wall street. The damage has already been done to the short sellers.
They can halt trading of the stock all they want. All exchanges do [0]

But the crazy part is that they only halted one side of the trade... the buy orders. That is manipulation.

Personally, this cost me £1k on Nokia. I went from +£700 to -£1000 over the course of about 30 mins, because the market was pulled from under me.

[0] https://www.nyse.com/trade-halt-current
We must not be reading the same subreddit then. There are many, many references of fucking with people or "sticking it to the man", and there have been for years.

Whether that constitutes "pushing an agenda" (your words, not mine) is up for debate. For example, do political anarchists "push an agenda"? Maybe not, maybe that's an oxymoron in a sense (the agenda is that there's no agenda) - but they are certainly "anti-establishment" (my words).

What makes you an authority on wsb or on anything else to be able to mandate that I "stop misguiding people", anyway?